How To Get Your First 10,000 Instagram Followers without a bot
How To Get Your First 10,000 Instagram Followers okay so today I'm talking you about how to get your first 10,000 Instagram followers I've been doing this over the last six or seven months I'm now to about 16,000 Instagram followers on my account and I want to teach you how to get them without buying them it's been a lot of fun and I think you're really going to enjoy this one.
okay so first thing when you're getting started with Instagram you want to start with a goal what is your goal for Instagram do you want to attract more b2b clients do you want to attract more b2c clients are you looking simply for large branding and to get your name out there more this is really important so make sure you write down specifically what you're trying to get out of Instagram to start things off okay so the second thing you want to do is build a profile that converts I want you to be really deliberate about your picture and your bio make sure your picture is flattering it speaks to the type of persona that you want to perceive when you're out there on Instagram and that your bio talks about your credentials and then has a call to action right there that lets people know that they can reach out to you at any time and what's nice about the Instagram business profile is that.
there's going to be a nice button right there that's going to allow people to click to call you or click to email you and it really helps to convert business I've seen a lot of success with my own profile and with all of our clients.
okay, so I remember three create an editorial calendar but in order to do this you need to take a look at all the top Instagram profiles online in your niche so go ahead and do some competitive analysis finding ten profiles in your niche that have large followings that have a lot of engagement and take a look at it and make sure that you pull out all of the best content themes and use that to create your own editorial calendar.
take the time to do this step and to really create an editorial calendar and know how often you're going to be posting before you start this because it's going to save you a lot of time and it's going to be important for some of our next steps okay so the fourth thing is you're going to want to do is start publishing and engaging with people so get a good base of content there before you start kind of interacting with people don't worry if there's.
there's nobody kind of commenting and liking your stuff at the beginning it's okay you want to just basically get a foundation of posts there so that when people come to the account they know that this is a solid account and they're going to want interact with it so do that and once you've got maybe five or ten posts you're going to start engaging and what I mean by that is you're going to want to follow other people who are commenting in liking on your competitors.
and the similar people in your same industry photos and information because those are going to be the most engaged people so follow them comment on their things interact with them and really spend the time to do that and you're going to see floods of people coming in and starting to follow your account.
ok another really important thing that you have to do is you want to make sure you're using the right hashtags don't be shy about this because every hashtag that you select is going to give you more distribution so when you're adding a hashtag on Instagram it's going to tell you how many posts are associated with that you're generally going to want to hit hashtags that have hundreds of thousands to millions of posts associated with them because that's going to allow you to have greater distribution and those are the areas that people want to interact with so make sure that you're using 5-10 hashtags if you do a post even if you don't have a lot of followers you're going to see a lot of people liking and interacting with your stuff just because you use those hashtags now keep in mind some of them might be BOTS right from things like Instagram some of these third-party Instagram tools that's okay but eventually you're going to start attracting a large amount of people who are actually following you and who are liking your stuff who are real people and in a couple BOTS here and there it's not the end of the world at least.
it's a little bit more engagement for you and it helps you with the Instagram search feed right so the more comments the more likes you get the higher you're going to show up in the Instagram search feed for the specific hashtag that you set ok.
so the last thing that I have is to make sure to advertise your top post so if you have a post that's doing 95 percent better than your other posts and Instagram will tell you this then go ahead and do a promoted post there right and then also use that information and create more content that similar to that same one that did so well because people like certain content themes they don't like others I've certainly been surprised by what some people like and what they don't want I do post and I think that you will be too okay so as far as Instagram goes that pretty much all you need to do the more you engage the more time you spend doing these things.
interacting with other people posting great content doing advertising on your top posts using the best hashtags and interacting with influencers and kind of building relationships with the top people in your industry.
the faster your accounts going to grow I think that this is one of the best ways right now for people to attract businesses for sure if you are a persona online you're a person running your own business it's great for the beauty it's even been great for b2b clients for me it really just across the board we are seeing some level of success on Instagram now it's not going to be driving as many commerce sales as something like Google Adwords or search engine optimization but there certainly is a lot of value to this component of the marketing mix and I wish you a lot of success.